Check-row planter.



W. B. HAMPTON.

CHECK ROW PLANTBR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 3. 10101 Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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PatehtedSept'. 22, .1914. 575,209.

To all'whont z't r nag concern:

Be it known that I, WILDIAM B. HAMP- 7 TON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Springfield, in therounty of Green and State of Missouri, have invented a new and ImprovedCheck-Row Planter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descr-i tion. i

Among t e principal objectswhlch the present invention has in view is to provide means for separating the grains to be planted, whereby the same are more evenly e and arrangement of seed hoppers and feeding mechanism mounted therein; Fig. 2 is a detail view, on enlarged scale, of transmission mechanism for driving the seed disks; Fig. 3 is an enlarged view, in vertical sec tion, of the dropping mechanism; Fig. 4 is a detail view, on an enlarged-scale, of a dropper plate; Fig. 5 is a detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing the lower face of a second dropper plate employed in conjunction with this invention.

The present invention is an improvementupon a patent heretofore granted to me, be-

ing for a planter, No. 883,014, issued March 24, 1908, cross reference to which is herein made. 1

The dropper plate, as shown in the drawmg, is provided with elongated and relatively enlarged pockets 34, 34, to receive kernels of corn. Each of the plates is mounted upon the upper edge of the'flange 38, to revolve about the pins 35, 35. The base plates 36, 36, the flanges 38, 38, and the pins 35, 35, are fixedly secured on the bottom 37 of the hopper 24. The annular flanges 38 are rigidly secured to the said base plates 36, and form, in conjunction with the plates 32, a series of pockets or receptacles from which the seeds and corn are delivered as each pocket rotates over the channels 56. Loosely mounted on the flanges 38, 38 are gear-toothed rings 39, 39. The rings 39, 39 are suspended by internal flanges 40, and are prov1ded on their outer peripheries with cog teeth 43, 43. The

.fla'n'g es 40 have recess pockets to receive laterally-extended cars 44, 44, whereby each of the plates 32, 32 is suspended upon the rings 39, 39.

It will be understood that the object in the operation of this machine is to drop two different kinds of seeds in the same row or same hill simultaneously or separately. When the pinion 45 is adjusted to engage both the rings 39, 39, then the seed carried in both compartments of the hopper 24, are delivered to the boot 57. at the same time. When it is desired to plant only the one kind of seed from the one compartment of the hopper, then the spindle 46 and pinion 45 are moved to engage only one of the rings 39, the 0 posite ring remainin immovable.

To facilitate the passage oft e seeds from the plates 32, 32, the plates 36 are recessed in line with the channels 56, so that when the perforations 33 and openings 34 aline with the said recesses, the seed is freed from the ockets.

T e rings 39, 39 are rotated by an interposed pinion 45, which is mounted at the upper end of a spindle 46. The spindle 46 is slidably mounted in hearings in the bottom 37 and in a bevel gear 47, to which it is rotatively connected by a key 48. To lift the'spindle 46 and the pinion 45 connecteg therewith, I provide the thrust bearin 4 11 each of the base plates 36 is formed a channel through which the seeds carried in the perforations 33 and openings 34 are delivered into a spout 57. The spout 57 is closed by a lid 58 and a connectlng rod 60 connectedtherewith and to an operating bar 61. The end of the dropper bar 61 is extended in the path of pins 62, 62. The pins 62, 62 are extended from the face of disks 63, which disks are mounted upon a shaft 64. The bar 61 is maintained in position to close the lid 58 by a spiral spring 67.

The bevel gears 47 are mounted in toothed engagement with bevel gears 68. The bevel gears 68 are fixedly. mounted upon a shaft 69, which shaft 69 is provided with bearings 70 formed in bracket arms 71.

. Claim:

A seed dropping mechanism, com rising a rotary plate having a plurality 0 dropping perforations, sa1d perforations having peripheral openings below the upper surface of said plate, said perforations being limited to receive a single seed; a stationary base plate recessed for holding said rotary In testimony whereof I have signed this plate and for closing laterally said periph specification in the presence of two subscriberal openings, said base plate having a pering witnesses. r foration disposed in the path of the perfora- WILLIAM B. HAMPTON. 5 tions in said rotary plate to receive and de- Witnesses: v liver the seeds held therein; and means for J. C. WEST,

rotating said rotary plate. ED. J oHNsoN. 

